Effects Quote by Will Smith

“Stories are psycho-diagnostic ― they diagnose the condition of our psyches. When we watch, read or hear a story, whatever detail jumps out reflects…

— Thea Euryphaessa

Storytelling has a narcotic power.

— Robert Harris

A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we…

— Donald Miller

It just seduces you when you read a story and your brain relates to it. You recognize or connect with it. You identify with…

— Danny Boyle

The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over a sequence…

— Ira Glass

Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a…

— Tahir Shah

Until recently we’ve only been able to speculate about story's persuasive effects. But over the last several decades psychology has begun a serious study…

— Jonathan Gottschall

Thinking that your story is so interesting that other people will want to listen to it or read it or pay to hear it,…

— Anthony Bourdain

You want the story to be about something, have some deeper meaning, but there is also an emotional, almost instinctual, element, which is, does…

— David Grann

I think there's a natural link between the fact that our self is a story that we make up and that we're drawn to…

— Mohsin Hamid

Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to…

— Octavia E. Butler

Telling a story is the way of exploring so many different things - human behavior, society, whatever existence.

— Yorgos Lanthimos